Clinical Exercise Testing

By Norman Longden Jones and Norman L. Jones MD

Here's the extensively revised and updated New Edition of the classic text on clinical exercise testing. Readers will find a concise, state-of-the-art description of the physiology and biochemistry of exercise--and review today's understanding of the factors that limit exercise in a very broad spectrum of clinical disorders. Applications in diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis are all explored.
Reviews of Last Edition:
"An up-to-date, comprehensive, and practical handbook...Invaluable."
--Respiratory Medicine
Helps readers set up laboratories with detailed coverage of methods, calculations and constants...plus a scheme for interpretation.Features a new chapter on Sensory Aspects of Exercise (Ch 3) that reviews the measurement and interpretation of sensations experienced during exercise.
Provides a new approach to the interpretation of results from "submaximal" exercise tests based on the measurement of symptom intensity and an understanding of the mechanisms contributing to symptom intensity.Clear discussion on the understanding of the biochemical aspects of exercise in health and cardiorespiratory disease.
Delivers a greater emphasis on symptoms than previous editions.Emphasizes non-invasive techniques for comprehensive "cardiopulmonary exercise testing", as well as clear descriptions of methods and normal standards.
Completely revised chapter on Equipment (Ch 14) includes specifications and features.Provides Normal Standards (Appendix D).
Illustrates methods of interpretation and the type of clinical information obtained with a wealth of updated clinical examples.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 072166511X
• ISBN13: 9780721665115
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.5" x 7.5"